From vocalizing to biting food, the jaw is ... how these fossils formed in the first place. Sansom says that the Chongqing site probably resembles other Ordovician and Silurian fish sites: most ...

However, the rise of the jaw has been a mystery as the majority ... a set of five exceptionally well-preserved fish fossils from the early Silurian period, which contained three whole-bodied ...

Scientists said they had found a 419-million-year-old fish fossil in China which disproves ... primordialis (meaning primordial complete jaw) was a type of placoderm that lived in the seas of China in ...

Researchers on Wednesday described the earliest-known vertebrates that possessed jaws as revealed by fossils of four remarkable fish species ... two treasure troves of Silurian Period fossils ...

A newfound treasure trove of ancient fish ... early Silurian Period, as an era of rapid diversification of jawed vertebrates. But the toothy fishes seemed to have left few traces in the fossil ...

This sudden diversity of jawed fish – also called gnathostomes – has long led scientists to suspect that their origins must lie deeper in the fossil record, a period known as the Silurian ...

This illustration provided by Heming Zhang in September 2022 depicts some of the fossil fish, more than 400 million ... The fossils date back to the Silurian period when scientists believe our ...

The fossils are said to date back to the Silurian Period ... along with a jawless fish that is expected to give further insight into how ancient fins eventually evolved into arms and legs.

The discovery included a shark-like fossil, as well as the bones of numerous boomerang-shaped fish, with the remnants believed to be from the Silurian period that occurred between 419 million and ...

In two deposits in China, paleontologists dug up remains that suggest jawed fish are tens of millions of years older than previously known. Five newly discovered jawed fishes including, clockwise ...

The best jaw for hunting fast fish is long and full of sharp teeth. This makes sense to us, but it also makes sense in nature: New fossil evidence from Virginia Tech geoscientists revealed that ...